File talk:Opened by censor.jpg

Date of use

Having studied WWII British censorship for the last 25 years, I know this style of censor label was used from the beginning of the war in September 1939 until the War Office responsibility for censorship passed to the Ministry of Information in April 1940. This censor label also has a reference number "PC66" at the top right, barely seen in the image, and at that time the text on the labels read "OPENED BY CENSOR" but this was changed to "OPENED BY EXAMINER" with the transfer of censorship responsibility. The very latest use I have seen of this type of label is July 1940, so this photo must have been taken before then. Most of this info can be verified in the Torrance & Morenweiser UK censorship book published by the Civil Censorship Study Group, British Empire Civil Censorship Devices WWII: Section 2 (pub 1991): Civil Censorship in United Kingdom. Ww2censor (talk) 19:15, 2 August 2012 (UTC)